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This bug has been fixed in Thunderbird 0.8. Upgrade or use the eudora2mbox-script at [http://www.gnist.org/~lars/code/eudora2mbox/eudora2mbox.html eudora2mbox], which does pre-processing (converting) of your Eudora mailboxes rather than cleaning them up after they've been imported. (Also see [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=81778 this thread] for further discussion of how to use the script. [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=82896]) You could also try the script discussed in [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=90379 this thread], which is designed to be run after you have imported your Eudora mail into Thunderbird. | |||
==Alternative import using MacOS X== | ==Alternative import using MacOS X== | ||
Revision as of 07:30, 23 January 2005
After importing mail from Eudora, you may find that many messages contain html tags, in angle brackets. In some cases it may be a simple "<x-flowed>" at the start of the message and a corresponding tag at the end, whereas in other cases a message might start out like this:
<x-html>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=iso-2022-jp" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
This bug has been fixed in Thunderbird 0.8. Upgrade or use the eudora2mbox-script at eudora2mbox, which does pre-processing (converting) of your Eudora mailboxes rather than cleaning them up after they've been imported. (Also see this thread for further discussion of how to use the script. [1]) You could also try the script discussed in this thread, which is designed to be run after you have imported your Eudora mail into Thunderbird.
Alternative import using MacOS X
If you are running Mac OS X, you might want to consider using Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to import your Eudora messages (from either the Mac or the Windows version of Eudora) instead of using the import function built into Thunderbird. EMC should be able to
- preserve all formatting of rich text and HTML messages
- correctly import non-ASCII (8-bit) characters
- preserve message status flags (read, replied, forwarded, ...)
- re-attach attachments for received messages (unless they have been moved/deleted from the Eudora attchment folder)
The import is considerably faster than Thunderbird's and the application is free.
